Building a Massive Wooden Padlock. Completing the Shackle and Lock Body. FarmCraft101 

This is the lock picking lawyer and what I have for you today is...uhhh...well.....

What do you mean, "what do I do with this?"..... You build a 20 foot tall box.... Duh.

I can already hear the LockPickingLawyer say: "This is an unusual keyway. Let me just climb in and find out." ... climbs in ... "Oh hi Bosnianbill, you're in here too."

This is definitionally a work of art. I could see it going for $10k-$20k. It is a functional sculpture. It is unique and little quirky.

Honestly nothing less than 5K. Beautiful craftsmanship. I'm a cabinetmaker for 45+ years, you are good, very good. Thank you for the video.

Pretty sure this will get to the CEO of Abus or Masterlock and they'll be trying to offer you a big check for it.

This is one of the most amazing and ambitious wooden project I have ever seen. The fact that it serves almost no purpose at all and that you’ve spent hundreds of dollars and hours building it makes this one of my favorite videos of all time on RU-vid. You’re a true inspiration! Thank you! Best regards /D

I'm a locksmith and hobby woodworker. My wife does laser wood etching mostly making jewelry, games and little gifty type things. We both love woodworking and simply have no words to express how amazing this is. I thought your lock cylinder was cute and the LockPickingLawyer parody was great, but this is just incredible. Thank you for sharing!

Talk to Abus - they'd have a lock of interest in it, might even pay a lock of money too. Probably want to varnish your key too, or at least get a second one made. Take it down to the local locksmith on April 1 and see what happens.

18:45 - "This is more an Ode to locks" Don't sell yourself short. This thing is still better than most master locks xD.

Dude! This thing is pure gold!!

thumbs up just for the fact you took apart a lock and REBUILT IT SO IT STILL WORKS. i could never.

This might be one of the more impressive videos I've ever seen on youtube. This deserves at least a few million views.

I would ask the people at ABUS or MasterLock cause that is a great thing to have in the cooperate lobby!

I am a retired locksmith and this is awesome.

You sir are an artist with wood! That lock is amazing. The details you added. You didn’t need to make the shackle the way you did. But you did. From you teaching me how to use my new chainsaw to fell a tree. To the great entertainment of your construction of this lock. You are doing something wonderful. Please keep up the great work. I know this video is 2 years old now. It is brand new to me. As far as price. It is so hard to price art. This I can’t say a price. I bet a museum might want it. A locksmith might buy it. But that isn’t much help. It is priceless to me. Much like your videos. The best.

Lots of people calculating hourly rate but forget he cloned himself for much of the build so its double rate! Wonderful bit of art, great craftsman.

My guess is that those in the lock/security industry may take serious interest in it; to them it may be fairly valuable but.... *to the rest of us it's priceless.* *Well done Jon; thanks for the time, effort, and the video.*

Considering time and materials, the fact that it's a one of a kind piece of functional art, I think you could get between $10-20k. Awesome job. It looks great, and it's a cool project.

Priceless!! No one could purchase after I finished this. Way too much work!!! Absolutely beautiful!! You are the most entertaining, interesting, creative person making RU-vid videos!!! No one is even close to you in ability and execution in so many different areas of human endeavor!! Very glad to have found your videos!!!!!!! Some people are just farmers!!! You are a perfect example of the kind of people who built this country!! Keep up the great work!!!!!

I mean, it only took you 29 minutes and 7 seconds to build, so....$50?

I could see it selling for $10,000.

Priceless museum worthy piece.

Totally awesome! I think for less than 20 thousand, you should keep it. Maybe send this video/link to several lock makers and suggest you might be enticed to sell it to them if they wanted to make an offer.

It’s 4 o’clock in the morning and here I am again. I regret nothing.

I pick locks, on my channel. This was right up my alley I love this lock♥️ Absolutely amazing job👍👍

Oh, it’s (lotta work) coming across extremely precisely in the video. The obsession is tantamount to Klaus Kinski’s in Fitzcaraldo, moving an old river boat over a mountain. Totally poetic. Totally artsy, totally self-deprecating, and totally informative and amusing. Should be in a museum. Move the hell over, Claes Oldenburg!!! You never had the skill or dedication to do anything like this. Shame on you, Claes!!! Priceless !!!!

I can't even imagine what you could get for this lock...the absolute attention to detail has to be worth at least a few grand. I'm in shock after watching all the videos for this!

I really love the comedic personality you always have in your builds. It's always brightens my day to watch your build videos, to see another handyman both work out a problem and to spend time entertaining the audience. It lacks the stale monotone presentation of other builders.

Now this is the quality of videos that we need on RU-vid

Incredible well done and the definition of a craftsman is one who when they make a mistake can get themselves out of it

I would say at least 10k. But I don’t know who your buyer is. But wow what a piece of art and craftsmanship. Really Really impressive. I bow to you sir.

00:22 Mad props for having the guts to disassemble a ticking padlock.

ABUS should pay you 10k: But you'ed have to provide 3 matching keys :)

This MUST go to woodcraft shows then to a museum for the trades!

$8 - $12 thousand easy for the padlock. What a one of a kind beautiful piece of art. Your an incredible Master Woodworker!! Hands down!!!

Man I swear someone is gonna take this video and cut most of everything out and repost it to something like Instagram and it’ll get millions of views in reshapes without credit

It’s a total “one off” $12,000 to a locksmith shop. Or try selling it at a locksmith convention when all of this Covid19 Crap is over

Way More Time on your hands or its winter time and time on hands or warm shop!! good job!! to say the least or a patient Wife.What is back ground John I a retired Woodworker! Still have all my limbs attached except 2 knees from standing on concrete all day long I would say its priceless

Well I'm still binge watching your shows and I am so impressed and amazed at your craftsmanship thank you for sharing sir

This is easily one of the coolest and most pointless projects I have ever seen on RU-vid! I would think it’s worth an easy $5k as an art piece.

Awesome project and video.

I subscribed a while back when you were got your excavator. I am going back through your old videos and really enjoy watching them. This is an awesome build. It appears that you have many talents. Working night shift in a control room, your videos get me through some long nights. Thanks

Not sure whats more rediculus, that I watched this or you built this. Keep the videos coming!

I'd say nothing under 10k$ though it's hard to know exactly how many hours you worked on this. for art projects the best way to price is (your hourly rate)*(hours worked on the project)+(materials cost)+(shipping costs) never price your hourly rate under minimul hourly wage obviously.. that should give you a rough expectation of what to charge at minimum for it. For novelty art items such as this it should be notred that up-pricing can be a selling point to wealthy elites too.

Considering the amount of time you put in making it and it is art, I would put it up for at least $10K.

I think it's worth knowing you've done an exquisite job, building what most could not. The sanding and finish work alone. I've built lots of things for millionaire's homes, you'd be surprised. Don't sell yourself short. Someone would love this! $10,000 minimum. Auction. Probably sold by now! Just beautiful !

Honestly, I wouldn't sell it for less than $50k, but a more reasonable price would be in the neighborhood of $75k to $100k (USD). Incredible artistry, craftsmanship, and perseverance!! 🏆🏆🏆❤️❤️❤️

You should make a hasp to match next. Or some chain. That would be cool.

Easily over 10K in work alone, but as art. 20-30k.

Jon you have so much patience. I don't know how you stuck with the project. It's an awesome piece

Take a wall in your house and panel it to make it look like the front of a box then add one of those buckles you can slip a lock through and lock it up. it’s wall art.

As one of the greatest things to come out of 2020 so far...it's probably worth 50 Gs.

Now the real question is. Can Lockpickinglawyer pick it? Edit: Let me just give all of the people who liked this thanks, and I’m not one to say this but thanks for 69 likes. And *NICE*

I am in awe of this man's talent and skill. These are the type of videos I bless RU-vid for bringing to us. Imagine making this marvellous piece of work and no-one seeing it.

Put it on online auction. This is not just a simple lock. This is hard work only a carpenter can imagine.

$10k would be my minimum price, but honestly i would set it higher. You are already at 5 figures so don't be shy. How many hours have you put into this? 500? So around $15'000 with an hourly rate of 30$ seems fair. If you wanna go for a cool number you can do the whole $12'345 If you think its too expensive and only a millionaire will ever buy it, go with the memes and make it $69'420 and hope a certain guy sees it.

minimum cost would be time and materials... * time being the total hours of planning and building together, with a reasonable hourly rate for your expertise and location * materials should not assume scraps, but buying new from a local store. did you say how many hours? if not, i"ll assume 50 hours of design at 60$/hour, and 150 hours of construction at 40$/hour, and 500$ in materials. that puts us to 9500$ minimum, and I have very low confidence in those first 4 assumptions... but that's just to get our minimum. assuming this is a custom commission, it's fitting that this would have a premium price to ensure that the craftsman is well compensated. I could see a quote being 12,000$-14,000$. but that isn't what this is. what's the demand for a product like this? this was built without a customer in mind. so the people that are interested should not be expected to pay time and materials, since they are going to offer what it's worth to them, not the cost to manufacture. it's worth is determined by what someone will pay for it. if Abus wasn't interested, and if you couldn't find an eccentric millionaire, what you can actually get for it might be closer to 4,000$-7,000$? 4k might be optimistic, but every time i see one of these videos and an auction follows, I'm surprised by the numbers I see. it seems there is actually a market for wacky and unique things like this. i hope someone is really excited by this, and offers a fair price.

Sell it John! Great craftsmanship like that will catch a premium price. Take it to a hardware store and get a spare key cut.

13:35 my man took multitasking to a whole new level

Regarding your question of how much the lock is worth monetarily: You're thinking about this the wrong way. You should put all the ABUS branding on the lock(don't upload any of that footage to RU-vid), which is the lock's manufacturer your model is designed after. Then contact ABUS and see if they'd be interested in buying it. It's an old German company. They'd probably put it up on display somewhere. Perhaps you could CNC their logo on to the key and lock itself. If not, switch the branding to another lock manufacturer, Master Lock for example. See if they want to buy it... Hell, this is the kind of sh*t Jimmy DiResta gets paid to do and it wouldn't even need to be functional.

Contact ABUS. They could be interested. I would say no less than 12,000$

You're a funny guy sometimes 🤣. And you do very well at explaining what you are doing. You could have been a great teacher.

Extremely entertaining video. You should keep it for your grandkids.

If you actually use this people aren’t gonna steal the object that being locked, there gonna steal the padlock

$20K if someone at ABUS commissioned it for a promo

This is one of the most impressive videos I've ever seen

John, you’re one of the few crazy mf’ers on YT who would go to the time, trouble and expense to build this… and I’m a lifetime subscriber loving you for it! I loved the “Holy #$@! It actually works!!” Quote on the pawl spring bit… Keep on keepin’ on, brother!

That’s gotta be worth $10k - $20k as a piece of art

Incredible work, your 3 d mind skills and hand eye skills are fantastic. I think the value of that lock is priceless as one of your kids/grandkids ( I’m now Bapa ie grandpa to 9) will want this and the video to always remember the patience, work ethic and skills of their GRANDPA.

It’s priceless…..wood burn your name on it and donate to Locksmith biz….or a museum. You had fun doing it 😊

work of art. your resourcefulness keeps amazing me. you should be one of the first colonizers of mars.

I don't have a clue what it's worth, but what an advertising piece it is. I love it. Regards Peter

I don't do many comments but this is one time where I must. This is cool beyond all coolness. A new 10. There aren't words that would do you and your project justice. Fan -freaking-tastic!! I watch all of your videos. The variety adds a lot. I wanna be you!!!!!!!! lol I am like you in the fact that I wanna to do it all myself. Help is a hindrance. You have my utmost respect. You are a god in my book. My idol. Thanks for all your videos and I appreciate all the work you put in. Rock on my man.

You said that was a total waste of time was the best part. Amazing is not a big enough word to describe the work or finished product of what you have created.

Lock Museum of America would be a great home for that beauty.

Excellent video and a beautiful padlock! You might feel that this is time wasted, but to us, your followers, its priceless to see and learn. And I truly believe you enjoyed making it - a lot :-) Don't sell it cheap is all I can say.

@27:00 had me lmao. To say that after all that work was priceless. Nice job finishing it and it also for it working.

You are quickly becoming my favorite mad scientist!

Your attention to detail is quite remarkable. Well done....

Materials used + Time spent on build + Power used + Tools degradation factor = True Fair Price -> That only you can know what it is worth!!! Great work ;D

PRICELESS !!!!!! Beautiful work!!!

Easy $10,000. You constructed a one-off piece of woodcraft. Excellent artisan technique.

Wow, you saw the whole thing through. Clever work all the way.

That lock is EPIC!!!! I love it. Great job!!!!

Stunning and Beautiful!!!

Holy Moly, Lockman! Loved watching you build it. Great job. Better make it worth a bit. I bet it took you quite a while to make and the craftsmanship is spot on. Say 5k to 7k. Well worth it. Thanks for taking the time.

Sir that lock is f-ing BEAUTIFUL 💯🤯 I love that lock ,I think just because it is different but I love how you put all the lil books and crannies in it , You did a helluva great beautiful job on the lock keep up the great work 💯💯👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏✌

This was such a fun build to watch. I'm so glad you took it all the way.

Great project. Thanks for sharing.

Newer seen projects like this one before. Well done John.

Worth as much as the guy wants to give on the day you sell it. Great project. Not too crazy about the digital camo look of the shacle.

To the right person this lock is priceless. For your time and effort i would say anywhere between 5k & 10k depending on what you accept.

Doesn't happen often, but I do love when youtube recommendations gets something right. Subscribed.

This is the coolest project I’ve ever seen. Amazing work.

By far, one of the coolest and most creative shop projects that I’ve seen!

You're a funny guy and SMART too. Love your channel. Thank you. 😂😂🤣 Good stuff!

I just discovered your channel. Wow ! You are a true artist. No matter if it's a hydraulic piston, a carburetor, removing a king pin from a wheel direction, or to find a way to do something you really got it. Really great videos. Thank you ! 10 k minimum for the Padlock. So much work and thinking in that.

that was incredible! amazing work

Someone needs to call the world record people. I think this may be the biggest hand made lock in the world!